Young woman killed in militant shelling of Aleppo

A woman was killed and another one was injured in shelling by militants of the Syrian city of Aleppo, the head of the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation, Lt. Gen. Vladimir Savchenko said.

"Shelling of Tel-Bazam settlement in Hama province and Furqan neighborhood in the city of Aleppo was recorded over the past 24 hours," he said.

"A young woman, born in 1993, was killed and another woman, born in 1974, was injured as a result of shelling by an unidentified illegal armed group of Furqan neighborhood," the Russian Defense Ministry's department of information and mass communications cited Savchenko as saying.